I'm writing a code to test this, but why do you ask this ? Is there a case where nvidia-smi might give me 35% util when the GPU is actually running the code as fast as it can ?
On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 5:36:14 PM UTC-7, Michael Klachko wrote: > > Ragav, so when GPU is 98% utilized, is the training faster than when it's > 35% utilized? Have you timed it? > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Ragav Venkatesan <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> After investigating further I don't think this is a speed or slow issue. >> I think the newer version of CUDA/cuDNN using the cuda backend is not using >> the GPU fully. The older version (7.5/5103) of CUDA/cuDNN produce 98% GPU >> util but the same code on the latest versions (8.0/5105) don't. The code by >> the way is the lenet tutorial from theano, so its not some weird coding >> error also. Using the libgpuarray backend, I am able to produce 98% util >> even with CUDA/cuDNN (8/5105). >> >> On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 9:48:40 AM UTC-7, nouiz wrote: >>> >>> It could be that the new back-end (libgpuarray) is faster and more >>> efficient in that cases. So just use that back-end :) >>> >>> The speed difference between both back-end isn't constant, but should be >>> a little bit faster with the new back-end in average. >>> >>> We have found a few speed regression in the new back-end, but they where >>> fixed. If you found one, just tell us and we'll fix it. But the probably is >>> still low of having slowdown in the new back-end. >>> >>> We just merged one such fix with indexing. Make sure to update >>> libgpuarray and recompile it if you want to be sure to have the fastest >>> version. >>> >>> Fred >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Ragav Venkatesan <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Ok, here is a problem I'm getting and I am not sure how to solve this. >>>> If I use the libgpuarray backend on the cnn_tutorial I am getting a 98% >>>> gpu >>>> tutilization with cudnn 5105. If I use cuda backend, I am only getting >>>> about 35% utilization. >>>> Anyidea why this might be so ? >>>> >>>> On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 9:38:17 AM UTC-7, nouiz wrote: >>>>> >>>>> What errors do you have? Delete your Theano cache, just in case and be >>>>> sure to use Theano dev version. The last release don't support it I think. >>>>> >>>>> Fred >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Michael Klachko < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Yes, it's supported, I'm using it right now (CUDA 8.0 on Ubuntu >>>>>> 14.04): >>>>>> >>>>>> >>> import theano >>>>>> Using gpu device 0: TITAN X (Pascal) (CNMeM is enabled with initial >>>>>> size: 30.0% of memory, cuDNN 5105) >>>>>> >>> print theano.__version__ >>>>>> 0.9.0dev3.dev-20fd30a38d34687e9d944140042762ca9fca6276 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 2:54:00 PM UTC-7, Ragav Venkatesan >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I updated and I'm getting some weird errors. With Cuda backend, >>>>>>> convolutions only run on CPU and with libgpuarray backend GPUs only run >>>>>>> at >>>>>>> about 35% util. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>> >>>>>> --- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "theano-users" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "theano-users" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "theano-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/theano-users/bSTnP3yLorw/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "theano-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
